This Sovereign Isle

This Sovereign Isle
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9780141995038
ISBN-13 : 0141995033
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Book Synopsis This Sovereign Isle by : Robert Tombs

Download or read book This Sovereign Isle written by Robert Tombs and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Geography comes before history. Islands cannot have the same history as continental plains. The United Kingdom is a European country, but not the same kind of European country as Germany, Poland or Hungary. For most of the 150 centuries during which Britain has been inhabited it has been on the edge, culturally and literally, of mainland Europe. In this succinct book, Tombs shows that the decision to leave the EU is historically explicable - though not made historically inevitable - by Britain's very different historical experience, especially in the twentieth century, and because of our more extensive and deeper ties outside Europe. He challenges the orthodox view that Brexit was due solely to British or English exceptionalism: in choosing to leave the EU, the British, he argues, were in many ways voting as typical Europeans.


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